melted heatsink

meobius · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject: melted heatsink

just when i thought i saw everything, customer walks in with a melted heatsink in one hand, and a 478 prescott in the other, apparently that was his second chip and heatsink too

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meobius · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject:

tell the truth don't think it's the preshott that did that though, would've needed to have hit 600-1000C for it to melt, unless the heatsink was really really really bad quallity... but it sure got a laugh....still wondering how it was managed.

oldmandingus · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:43 pm Post subject:

crrrraaaaazzzzzyyyyy

Yoshida · UberTweaker Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 1219

maybe he lives on the sun?

FreeTheRock [banned] · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:56 pm Post subject:

or mabye the true nature of the prescott has come out.

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did you by chance check to see if it was made of cheese?
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JayDubya · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:53 pm Post subject: Re: melted heatsink

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Like I said....BEHOLD THE POWER OF CHEESE
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2old2care · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:30 am Post subject:

Amazing....never underestimate the average idiot.

I think several ppl here routinely work on PC's....I was thinking just the other day, that we should start a thread or sticky, to show off some of the things we run across.
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Ham_fisT · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 6:48 am Post subject:

I did some google on this.....Aluminum melts at 659*C, Copper at 1,083*C

you should sell this guy a VapoChill rig

or...tell him to stop using the propane-torch to "BURN-IN" his Processors

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I guess thats what you get when your secretary to the devil himself......i would imagine the weather isnt all that condusive to computers down there.......
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JayDubya · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:29 am Post subject:

he was trying to make a seamless connection b/n the core and the heatsink. He was using an arcwelder. Then the aluminum went POOF!
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Silicon Skum · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:49 am Post subject:

Actually, I HAVE seen a heatsink that was melted by the computer. It was a system that was brought in for repair when worked at a local computer shop. What had happened (as far as I could tell from the mess) was somehow the PSU cables had arced across the heatsink, a short between +5v / +12V and ground (not sure how the sink was grounded though

). this dumped about 30 or 40 Amps across the aluminium of the sink. it melted and warped the sink, BURNED the CPU to a crispy critter and the PSU had litterally exploded inside.

Some of the wire had vaporised, leaving little balls of molten copper all over the motherboard. After I had opened this and looked at the mess inside, I asked the guy what the hell had happened to it, all he said was "the missus"

I don't know what she did or was trying to do, but that system was TOASTED!.

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Does anyone have a PII donor system to re-enact this?
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meobius · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:46 am Post subject:

he claimed it was the cpu that melted the bottom of the heatsink. as i said, i doubt it. maybe he forget the thermalpad and had alchohol on the cpu and heatsink that ignited.

Xal · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:24 am Post subject:

probably some joker who fried the cpu then decided that he might have more luck replacing it if he melted the heatsink so it looked like a fault with the procy or somthing, I have seen a few similar attempts at claiming on waranty.

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